Webinar: Meet the FLIR M300-Series Cameras

all right good morning good afternoon again Jim McGowan I am in New England just outside of Boston and my special guest this morning is Jay Robinson Jay is our vice president of product management for maritime thermal imaging Jay is joining us from California good morning Jake hi I all do I'm glad to be here thank you for joining us so we're gonna be talking about the FLIR M 300 series which we rolled out last fall certainly a major product launch for us and can you tell us a little bit about the product line where does the M 300 fit into FLIR overall lineup of maritime cameras you can see the M 300 series which is made up of five different models we'll talk about later it fits in the middle of the lineup from the MD at the low and enix more inexpensive end and then the m500 at the other end it's kind of the bread-and-butter mid-range product it replaces the M series which we've had on the market for well over almost 10 years and so the M 300 is a big step up in technology and kind of fills in I think the most common camera and in the lineup and for most of our users is a is an M 300 something that is targeted at a recreational boater or a professional boater or somewhere in the middle you'll find most custom both in fact we'll find some pretty nicely fitted out recreational boats with an M 300 on it and we also sell quite a few cameras into the commercial customers Harbor patrols first responders some Coast Guard small vessels will find the M 300 suitable for their vessel it kind of goes with the size of the vessel and the the budget and and the application but given them the breadth of models and 300 it fits on a number of different boats from small to let's say medium sized okay so what's like what's a key advantage of an M 300 say over an M to 32 well first of all every model is stabilized gyro-stabilized so it keeps the image stable even when the boats Rocking it also offers particularly well some of our latest technology for outputs it's got an HD SDI output it's got an analogue video for those legacy users and it also has integrated IP video streams single streams for single payload users or dual simultaneous video streams for those people that that bought a dual payload camera and so it works it integrates into a number of different systems that might make use of the IP video for example for your MFD or for other recording systems or even the HD SDI converted hdmi for big screen TV and the salon it's pretty cool to see all the cameras lined up here end to end and and i know we try to offer a really wide range of options to fit all different types of vessels all types of different budgets the one that always catches my eye in the lineup and I know it catches people's eyes at the Boat Show is that M 500 out on the end it it looks looks kind of sinister it looks like a Star Wars character what what makes that M 500 so special it makes me smile that it draws your attention because it is the top end of the lineup it's a pretty expensive camera the thing about it is it's got a cool and sensor a mid way that is 3 to 5 micron cooled hi-tech sensor that has a 14x lens on it so it has the longest range and really the best-looking IR image of all the cameras that we made that's pretty cool we'll have to do another webinar on M 500 sometime just talking about that ones capabilities so looking at the the overall lineup so M 300 series is actually a family of products so we've got 5 cameras here in the lineup so let's kind of start with the basic model the M 300 C what does that give you well you can read these model names with a little bit of logic associated with it so when you see m3 you're talking about the M 300 platform which is consistent across these five different models and this the next two digits after the three represent an IR sensor so when we look at an M 300 C that C means a color camera so it's an M 3 platform with no IR camera and a single payload color camera the same color camera that you'll see across the lineup very it's an HD resolution very nice sensitive 30x zoom visible camera that we're quite proud of all right so if those last two digits represent the thermal payload then I see we have a three three two and A three six four what's the key difference between those models that's right so the M of 332 is a single payload camera and you know and I'm 300 platform with a single payload 320 by 256 thermal sensor it's got a fixed field of view 24 degree horizontal field of view lens and so that's the what we really call mid-range resolution or low end for this family and then as you go up to an M 364 that's an M 300 platform with a six forty six forty by 512 thermal sensor with a twenty four degree horizontal feel to be lens okay so when I go to a higher resolution thermal sensor is it like a like a digital camera I'm like yes yeah you'll never get as many pixels in a thermal camera as you do on your you know current visible cameras because the pixels need to be bigger and the technology is more expensive and more complicated but but at 640 by 512 sensor generally has four times as many pixels as a 320 by 256 and so it adds imaging resolution it's it's a it's a VGA quality picture that looks quite high resolution and use at night on the water and kind of represents our standard resolution these days for infrared cameras so I can see the last two models obviously are dual payload I see the dual the two lenses on them and they both pick up a c4 color camera and that last one out there m36 for CLR what does the LR about that's right you can think of it as a term for long-range so an m3 six for CLR is our dual payload camera with a narrower field of view thermal sensor that is an 18 degree horizontal field of view and as you narrow that lens you are able to put more pixels on distant targets and so it in fact gives you better range okay but you do trade off a little bit of side-to-side situational awareness to do that is there a particular application for a camera like this or is this a big boat thing or small bow thing or you'll find those people that really want maximum range will step up to the m36 4cl our coastal surveillance coastguard those folks who are really trying to pick up targets at some distance might favor this camera okay it's a little more expensive but for those applications where you need the best range you can get in this family then it fits nicely that's the right tool for the job yeah so let's take a little look at some of the sensors that are onboard these cameras the first one is our visible light camera and I've seen this one out in the wild it is uh it's pretty amazing to see it so what is what does this camera do for us Jay it's a block camera that is very consistent under various conditions I think this latest generation of visible cameras a lot of the cameras that are coming out these days have new sensors that are very sensitive in low-light conditions such that you get a good color image even after the Sun sets well into the kind of darker portions of sunset of course when it does get very dark and then the camera will switch to a low light mode in which you see a black and white image to pick up all the possible light under those conditions but I think for most users most of the time you're seeing a beautiful HD color image even in low-light settings this shot always impressed me I was I was actually there when we captured this this is down in Tampa Florida and our boat was in the slip at the convention center and that ship and that tug are about two miles away down the channel and when the cameras at at full zoom you can almost read the name on the ship on its Stern it's pretty cool it's got good optics it's you're looking at a 30x optical zoom on this camera and so it does zoom in nicely to distant targets it also with the stabilization as part of it you know gyro stabilization as part of the camera system it enables you to kind of stay on target even the boats moving around under it I've heard people describe it as better than binoculars that is a good way to describe it absolutely now you mentioned that this camera has a low-light payload or low-light capability and this is actually one of my favorites this was one of our Pro Ambassadors actually sent this and Jim Kelly fishes out of Florida on the fishing team boat sent this to us and what's cool about this one is this is the view through the windshield of the boat at night and you can see he's got a little bit of a little bit of glare off the glass but if you look through there you can see some of the channel markers and things up ahead but watch this this this is my favorite part that's the view from the low-light camera in his m36 4c yeah it it is amazing that the camera can actually see much better than you can with your eyes there's a few different technologies going on there in terms of backlighting on the focal plane and wide dynamic range increased to gain on the color sensors all that produces you know we say it's a low low light camera and people think of a black-and-white image but in fact most of the time when I'm using the camera it's in the color mode and I can see like this picture a whole lot more with with the camera in the evening than I can with my eyes now this type of camera is this dependent on having some type of ambient light in the scene sure visible light cameras require some kind of ambient light moonlight starlight lights around the the marina like that all contribute and this is a pretty you can see also on on this vessel it looks like he's got a forward illuminator as well so you've got to have some visible light or the camera will just generate noise but um you'll be surprised under most in many settings where it is dark but there's enough light around to see with the camera so I guess that leads us to our next payload that's offered on the M 300 family and that would be our thermal imager let's let's take a look at that so this is the thermal imager on I think this is an m3 6-4 so this is a 640 image and what do we see here kind of been this kind of base image that we're looking at Jayne well you'll see that the standard output of the camera is a sixteen by nine screen in which we've got the 4:3 imager aspect ratio in the center and displaying icons along the side so that they're not overlapping too much of the image in the upper left hand corner you can see that the the scene mode is in night mode there are four different scene or AGC settings and then that the camera is at the vertical stabilization so it'll correct for pitch essentially when looking forward the azimuth icon bottom left and this picture was taken off of just out of the harbor in Santa Barbara um and I think if we play the video you'll see it zoom because this thermal sensor is a fixed field of view optic optic then when you zoom in on the thermal you are easy you're essentially magnifying the pixels that are in the center of the field of view so you you do get the effect of zoom and you can see targets more clearly but but it's different than an optical zoom and has some trade-off for detection and a resolution you can see up to the left of the movie there a stand up paddle or that's a little long so I suspect we probably have a few people watching today that aren't totally familiar with FLIR technology so when we're looking at a thermal scene what is it that we're actually seeing what is the camera picking up non visible light comes in lots of different wavelengths in fact what you see with your eyes is a very narrow part of the overall electromagnetic spectrum this particular camera is a long wave infrared camera so it sees between 8 to 12 micron wavelengths and a lot of people like to describe this as seeing heat because radiant heat transfers through those wavelengths quite nicely and so in this picture the buoy and the stand up paddler and about all of those things are warmer objects than the background so you're in effect seeing their heat signature on with the background of the water in the sky so this has been the kind of thermal image that a lot of voters have seen for a while on the market with M 300 series we brought out a new feature called color thermal vision and let me hit the play button on this and this is kind of interesting this is something that we really haven't seen before what's going on in a color thermal vision image J well you know if I have a dual payload camera then then up until now you had to have two different screens to see both seams at once the visible light camera and the thermal camera when we say color thermal vision then what we're doing is blending those two together we're taking the the brightness from the thermal image and then the color content from the visible camera and overlaying them blendings one term color thermal vision is another term you'll see it as short C TV but in effect we're trying to give you the best of both worlds in one screen and particularly when you're navigating at night like this scene you're getting the thermal image but you're able to see navigation lights other vessels city lights things that you might miss if you were just looking at the grayscale thermal image alone it is a pretty powerful image and just just having the flashes in this case of the navigates colorized it adds a lot to the scene in many cases at night the buoys and the markers will kind of blend into the scene but it's that colored light of course that Mariners are looking for and being able to see that as part of the thermal image is a big deal that's pretty good I have another color thermal vision scene bring that out so this one I think you would I were both on the boat when we took this so this was taken in Norfolk Virginia and play on this so you all can see it so in this color thermal image we've got a lot a lot more colorization than in the last one what kind of controls do we have on the colorization well there is a slider in which you can control the amount of color content that is mixed with the thermal image so at say 0 or 5% it looks mostly like a thermal image but at a hundred percent it's a full mix of the color from the visible camera and the thermal and the essentially the luminance or brightness from the thermal image this particular scene is beautiful because of the city lights in the background and the nav aid that you can see in the foreground and it was just a beautiful night out as well and so again I I often run mine boat with CTV enabled because I want to see everything that I might need to see through one screen so one of the things I noticed that's a little bit different in the symbology on this image versus some of the other ones we've been looking at over there on the left-hand border it says horizontal and vertical stabilized what does that do for us in that indicator as it currently shown is correcting the cameras position for both vertical and again if the camera were pointed pointed off the bow of the boat correcting for the pitch of the boat and horizontal which in that case would be yo of the boat and so in any cases people would use both hor you know you think of it in two modes if I'm navigating I want that camera pointed forward but I want to correct for pitch and so I would want vertical stabilization on only but if I'm navigating the boat freely or I'm an anchor and and and the object is to search or look around and see things and stay roughly on target then horizontal and vertical stabilization keeps you constant with the think of it as the the world's with constant with the globe constant vector with respect to the compass in and the horizon that's pretty good so to make the stabilization work what kind of sensors are in that in the chassis in the M 300 in a compass and accelerometer and and other attitude measuring devices that tell the camera essentially where it is and so where it is in space and in what direction it's pointed and then when stabilization is enabled motion control system does its best to keep it pointed on target one of the things about horizontal and vertical stabilization is for example you can point at a target and have the boat do a full 360 under the camera and it will stay on target I can imagine that would be useful too especially like a first responder whether I gonna see ya Man Overboard scene or the accident or fire or something that's right in a situation like that there perhaps you know to two people on board one navigating the boat the other one really looking for something or trying to find someone overboard or tracking another target and so the stabilization is very useful in that situation that's pretty good so I hear there's another camera mode called MSX and this is an example of it here this image came out of Connecticut where you can we're at the mouth of Thames river here and this fishing trawler was going by on a very hazy day what is this MSX do 4sj it's another form of blending as I described before with color thermal vision CTV we take the color content from the visible camera and over and over lay it essentially with the thermal image in this case MSX which stands for multispectral imaging is taking the edge content from the visible camera software analyzes the visible picture and then finds all the hard edges and it's that edge content and that gets blended with the thermal image to add realism higher resolution edge detail it's very useful in many cases where we sell cameras for example for thermography person purposes for people going around plant sites measuring hot spots and things like that in a maritime case under certain conditions it does add a herbal edge of edges of resolution but for most purposes particularly at night my use on you know mine my experience with the camera color thermal vision is probably more useful for because colored navigation lights are so important that's pretty good so one of the things that we touched on earlier was gyro stabilization and in this video I think we have some examples of this m3 64 with stabilization on and off now you mentioned that there's an accelerometer and a gyro inside the camera mm-hmm that's right and a compass and and one of the ways you can see whether or not stabilization is on or off or what it's doing for the image is the bow rail moves relative to the scene if stabilization is on but of course if it's turned off and the camera essentially stays with the boat and the BAL rail appears to be stable in use essentially when you stabilize the image than the horizon should stay in about the same place for vertical stabilization and again if you have both vertical and horizontal then generally the object that you're looking at stays in about the same place except of course it'll move if you're essentially passing it or translating past that the object so I know when you're looking at it cameras in general and in particular at a lot of the FLIR and even Raymarine marine cameras now some of them have digital stabilization and then some of them have mechanical stabilization can you tell us a little bit about what the differences are sure most of the time for these cameras just the word stabilization implies mechanical stabilization in which the pan-tilt system is trying to keep the camera pointed in generally the right direction boat motion you know is relatively low frequency high amplitude movement for which you need to keep the camera pointed in generally the right direction um there are though other causes of jitter and other things in an image for example engine Rumble and and when you're slamming across waves then you generate higher frequency signals that that can jar the image and that's where verdict excuse me where digital stabilization or electronic stabilization comes into play on our higher-end systems they m400 and the m500 and actually that same visible camera in the m 300 there is an e stab feature that can be enabled that will generally apply some digital stabilization to the image as well I take some of that really low-level shakeout sounds from yeah engine Rumble for example is a higher frequency lower amplitude noise that the camera tries to accommodate it's pretty good so with all of the mechanicals that are in the camera they sometimes refer to that as PTZ and I think that is pan tilt and zoom and and that's an option that we have on a lot of cameras I mean basically everything from the M 232 up is a PTZ camera now here there's some integration between the pan and tilt Drive and some other onboard electronics sometimes they call that slew to cue what are some things we can do there J that's right the the PTZ is actually kind of a security camera term because they were first of the party in terms of naming how these security you know different kinds of cameras can be controlled and pointed and zoomed so yes PTZ stands for pan tilt zoom and there are different ways to control the camera point it in the direction that you want you can get a one of three different kinds of joysticks that work with these cameras and and for example our JC u2 or you handle the stick and push the camera in the direction you want to go is kind of the most common way to operate it but you can also point the camera using an MFT by swiping the screen or or using a rotary knob and and and pushing it right or left or up or down to point it in the right directions but there are other ways as well to point the camera and integrated with certain marine electronics like a marine MFD and and the other guys garmin through no Simrad all have different versions of the kind of capability where you tell the camera to point in a particular direction based on individual cues and in case of a radar or radar target the the MFD knows where the radar target is and it knows generally where the camera is pointed and so it can cause the camera to slough that is to move for that radar cue a is targets and Man Overboard targets all are kind of known positions on a chart that an MF D has the capability to point the camera in the right direction imagine on earth especially on a recreational boat where you might have a small crew - I was thinking about that Man Overboard Slough - Q so when you press the button on your m FD to mark the position of a Man Overboard and it triggers a bunch of actions across the system on your chart and changes the range of your radar and it sets a timer in motion and one of the things it does is it tells the camera where that latitude longitude of the Man Overboard was and so now the camera auto tracks on that position and it's a situation where people are going to be slightly panicked and slightly but it certainly takes some of the workload off of the crew so they can really focus on the task at hand of getting that person back on board that's for sure and I'm you know whenever I'm running a boat I'm busy doing a lot of things and actually thinking about having a good time at the same time and so having the systems interact properly so that you're getting the kind of functional behavior that you want without actually having to control everything is really a benefit that's very true yeah it's it can be easy to get get your head down in the electronics and get you know overwhelmed by all the technological wonder land on your helm but it's nice to make the electronics work for you so you can keep your your eyes up and stay alert to what's going on and I've been working for you I think the hardest thing we face in developing these products is trying to add as many features as possible but make them easy to use so that customers get that benefit and don't have to open a manual or think about again how how to operate it in certain ways the combination of features and ease of use is a real art so let's uh let's kind of look maybe behind the scenes real lift the hood here and see what does it take to get an M 300 into the electronics on my boat and this diagram here probably looks pretty complicated but I think actually it's not quite as bad as it may initially seem so let's start with the basics J for the video on an M 300 let's say I want to see the image on on whatever what I have for video output options well the bottom of the camera has four different connectors one is a power connector that it combines with some serial wires in an analog video wire so we the one connection gives it power and allows it and provides a path for analog video for legacy displays the second connector is an Ethernet connector using our waterproof rain at connection on the bottom and and all users will need to have Ethernet connection for system control at least the jcu control or however it is that we're going to tell the camera we're at a point and and get IP video across it and that's how the video passes as well IP video over the Ethernet connection to an MFT for example there's a third connector which is a BNC coax type connector and that is where you would find the HD SDI signal which is the full motion of high resolution HD image that for most people if you're going to use that connector sometimes it'll you'll find a place to connect directly into a display on the bridge but in most cases people will take that HD SDI signal convert it to HDMI and then run it to the big-screen TV either in the salon or perhaps an HDMI type or DVI type display on the bridge and then finally there is a device net connector on and 300 it's not currently in use but will become more valuable as time goes by and we add more features that connect the camera to the system the ship's enemy a 2000 Network so we have a lot of options then forgetting the video and the data out and I heard you mention in there jcu so when it comes to actually controlling the camera pointing it in a direction changing features and functions on it what is it JC you do for us that's right JC U is in and it's numbered for here in the image JC U stands for a joystick control unit and we have three different models available that we affectionately refer to JC one two and three based on when they were developed and introduced to the market shown here as a JC u 2 it's our nice most fully featured the greatest number of buttons and it's got a nice stick control with some buttons on top of the stick it makes for easy easy navigation through the camera menu system and and quick control over various things like terming turning stabilization on and off or putting the camera into a surveillance mode where it hands back and forth automatically and the stick provides good proportional control to point the camera at something and home in on it easily when everything is moving around you but generally jcu refers to separate control for example I can control the camera using the jcu and and watch its display on a big screen TV and essentially have the marine electronics out of the picture while I'm at anchor just looking around the Anchorage interesting so in addition to the JC UIC there's a laptop in here is there the ability to do anything with the camera from a PC or a web browser sure it is an IP camera with lots of different features and controls as I described if I were using a JC with the camera I would use the menu system on that big-screen TV but an alternative way to see the camera and control it is to connect to it over the network with my laptop or tablet or even my phone and log into the cameras web browser in which I have full control over camera features system control the web browser is not really intended to be a full-time use case but for short periods of time or for setting the camera up or making certain adjustments or again controlling it and looking at it over my phone it's a full-featured web browser and and again represents kind of a new age of technology for all four cameras like this that's pretty good and I noticed we also have a couple of MFDs in this lineup so we know a lot of FLIR products can be controlled by Raymarine MFDs also Garmin and simrad Faru know there's a lot of different options out there for it what level of control do you have typically from an MFT mote I would say full control is certainly the goal of all MFD manufacturers I think you know they they every one of them would like you to be able to control the camera completely through the MFD um perhaps without a joystick as I mentioned if you've got room on the dash and you really want ease-of-use and full proportional control over the camera I like to have a joystick on the on the dash as well but you can get all the camera features generally through the different MFDs I think you'll see that each manufacturer has introduced the feature controls and perhaps some names in a little bit different way to match their layout and style but for most use cases the MFD will give you full control over the camera I think that the exception to that is setting up the camera for example in a ball down state where when it's mounted there are certain settings that you you might need to go into the web and and make things make sure have your installer make sure it's set up right once that's done then it's done and it operates like every other camera without a need to access the web okay and just to clarify for those that may not know what that is 99% of the time and you see photos of our FLIR cameras they're in what we call a ball upper configuration that is the lenses are upwards and usually it's mounted on top of a cabin table or a mast but there's an alternative mounting method called ball down so if you wanted to hang the camera upside down maybe from an overhanging from the edge of the roof line or from the underside of a mast you can do that so it's just a setting menu that you flip to tell the camera whether it's right side up or upside down that's right and we things are getting pretty crowded up on the mast on some buses and so the most convenient place in some cases is ball down and and in particular that gives you a good view of the deck for example whereas ball up would give you more of a view of the sky depending on the user's desires and again space and other considerations ball up and ball down are both possible definitely gives you a lot of flexibility in the installation so if someone had older electronics I guess you could still put a very new FLIR onboard the boat you know at a at a minimum you could do a camera a JC you and a marine monitor but even some older MFDs have just basic analog input and I suppose you can see the camera on the MFD and control it from the jcu that's right yeah I think in this simple at one of the simplest cases power analog video and an Ethernet connection to your JC you would give you a full functional control over the camera and access to the camera menu systems and I always think it's a bit of a crime to take a beautiful image and display it on an old analog monitor but in some cases that's the most cost-effective useful way to install it yeah just kind of one final note about this image that we've been looking at this is obviously a reamer een system and this is one of our first responder partners down in Connecticut and it's an m36 4c and we're in the Connecticut River and if you look on that MFD in the foreground that is the interstate 95 bridge that passes over the river and if you look through the windshield of the boat those yellow dots that you see running horizontally are the light poles on the bridge so it's just another pretty good example of low light capabilities of the visible camera payload actually this isn't even thermal this is visible and another example of that good color low-light capability it's pretty good and I think demonstration that there's more ambient light than you would think that gives the camera enough light to give you a useful image that's pretty good and I know they have a pretty robust integration package on this being a police boat but you can see they've got radar up they've got their chart up everything is linked together they use the slew to cue it's quite a tool for them out on the water nice set up first question this is from Greg how does thermal work in heavy fog but tell us about using thermal out in the fog Jay let's just say not as well as you might hope water generally absorbs thermal energy long wave infrared that I mentioned earlier 8 to 12 microns for example it is absorbed by water and so we do see a degradation in image quality as the moisture level goes up you know there are lots of different kinds of fog and it really goes to the particle size and the type of fog and the way it behaves you know at the dew point and below generally when it's a light fog like haze the camera can cut right through it nicely because it's a small particle size and and the thermal energy passes right through it but as you get to larger particle size heavier wet fog in particular the kind of fog that gets everything wet like rain then the image quality will go down so infrared imaging is not a panacea for fog it doesn't it sees as well as generally you can see with your eyes and so at night you'll pick up things that you might not otherwise see because it still sees at night but it's right over all ranges cut significantly in heavy wet fog all right I've got another good question here you'll actually like this one Jay this comes in from Phil and he says on a sailboat what position would you recommend for mounting a FLIR camera he said I assume higher on the masts would give you more sway what can you tell us about that I think you have some experience with this yeah I'm a sailor more than a powerboat or you can see my mime boat in the background of my headshot there in general you know the best place to put a camera on a sailboat that allows you to see forward without any obstruction of the sails would be the top of the mast or the bow pulpit neither one of those are very convenient spots to install an M 300 or any other camera for that matter of what we what I do on my boat is install it on the mast you know off about two-thirds where the radar it goes mine's on a self-leveling radar mouth and engine all that does obstruct the view for the half half of the scene in front of the boat because if I'm sailing then of course the jibs in front of it and obstructs its view what I've found is you know that one can wander a bit left and right as you're going along and pick up enough of the seam to make it useful but for the most part I use the camera most often when coming into Harbor or coming into an anchorage and at that point the sails our furled and I can see quite clearly around the boat entirely so I think sailboats present an interesting problem that someday we'll solve in more conveniently located cameras but but for now I think you know there is there's not a good spot to put a camera except on top of the mast and if you've got a big enough sail boat to put a camera up there I mean I would do it we have some customers that have done that and I think pretty pretty happy with the results I suppose they'd always be happy to sell you more than one camera but that's probably not a possibility for everyone either you bet it's just like you know as a sailor standing at the helm I don't have a clear view because often the sails are in the way so I have to look under look around or or caused the the boat to wander a bit on its course in order to see what's in front of it so another question came in while you were talking to us about sailboat mounting and it actually kind of ties in nicely to the end of this discussion and Jim wants to know is the M 300 series compatible with augmented reality yes it it's very nicely matched up with Raymarine gear to use augmented reality the clear cruise features because it's got IT video that's got good registration and good pan/tilt control then as you pan the camera around the system knows where it's pointed and and can reveal those objects the augmented reality objects that are on the Charter a is objects or other but the one thing I would say is is you know just make sure set up cameras installed properly and you've gone through the calibration steps to make sure that the MFD has been calorie calibrated for horizon and forward position and I got two more quick questions and then we're going to close it down and this might have to do with using one of these cameras out in the cold or in weather what are these m300 cameras have for heating elements on their lenses what are those used for there are there is what we've called D ice heaters but they also can generally heat up the window to remove condensation there's direct heater control through the MFD or through the web basically one should be able to approach the boat when it's all been iced over and and as things get fired up and warmed up the heater has enough power to de-ice the windows and clear the image over the first 30 minutes of use depending on the thickness of the ice but it's also there to help clear moisture when when that's viewable through the visible camera and the last question we're going to take this morning can you tell us just a little bit about some of the handheld FLIR options I think we have a camera in our line now that uses the same core as we have in an M 300 at least from a thermal perspective that's the sign-on isn't it Jake that's right scion also uses a Bose encore with a variety of different lenses I think one of them matches up with this camera and so the Bose encore is one of the latest generation core is coming out of Santa Barbara with some very interesting image processing capability filtering to give you a more pleasing image and and the way it operates it makes it a much better show to match up with some of the blending features that we showed earlier CTV and MSX so we're pretty pleased with the weather boats on course finding its way into various cameras both fixed and handheld I'd like to thank Jay again for joining us today thanks for coming out Jay I appreciate you taking the time out of your busy schedule to talk to us all thank you it's been fun and thanks for the opportunity and to everyone that tuned in this morning thank you very much I hope you're all doing well at home staying safe and thinking about getting out there on the water in the near future thank you very much thanks everybody

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Published: Wed Apr 15 2020